poems for daughter

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley


You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. ~Erving Goffman


Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers." ~Peter F. Drucker


Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You


Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown


Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet


Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin


Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane


This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb


It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. ~Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World


I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ~Romans 7:19


Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger


Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~Sallust


Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993


The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. ~Thomas Aquinas